PGD-SEI: EDUSEI3- Inspection-Professional Skills, attributes and community collaboration

This course will explore the professional attributes and skills which school inspectors should possess, by looking at a variety of aspects of the school inspector’s duties and responsibilities. The course is designed to guide students towards demonstrating a deep understanding of the ways in which professional attributes are instrumental to the work of a school inspector, including the ways in which school inspections can affect schools. A variety of elements of school inspections will be analyzed, for example the critical importance of the relationship between an inspection team and the school leadership, but other relationships as well including those between inspectors, teachers and other stakeholders are also critically evaluated. A wide range of contexts are explored as a backdrop to these analyses in order to provide students with a broad spectrum of school inspection scenarios in which to place their own contexts and experiences. The importance of recognizing, and addressing, the effects which school inspections can have on their stakeholders, is emphasized as well as practical strategies for alleviating or minimizing negative effects. Students will have opportunities and autonomy to communicate comprehensive views which affect school microsocieties and inter-relationships through the lens of school inspections.